Make a Calm Bounty (or any other bounty) in the Coliseum.
The second battle? That's pretty much exactly the same battle as the first except Riku can do a Sleight. Just remember to Dodge Roll past Dark Firaga instead of away from it (as in, Dodge Roll toward it to avoid it). Everything else is the same as the first battle.
Use Magic Boosted Holies, Summon Boosted Omnislashes, etc. Just use high valued Sleights so he can't use Dark Aura and you should win with ease.
You like Ansem's wickedly evil ways, but not Axel's? Or maybe you just like Ansem for his looks. :p But yeah, I liked Axel in CoM more than KH2. In CoM he gave a manipulative and mysterious feeling, but in KH2 he was just too sweet. Bad guys should be evil (although he wasn't really evil in KH2, but even then being good shouldn't change his personality that much). CoM made people think that he was one of the strongest members of the Organization, but then in KH2 you would be sorta surprised that he could defeat even Vexen.
*Expects everybody to say manga* I like the game better, but mostly because the game's are the more "correct" iterations of the events of the story.
See post in "KH:Chain of Memories??" topic.
There's a slight change in scripting and scenarios though. One scene in particular is quite different because after KH2 there was a revamp in terms of the Nobodies and the darkness.
KH2 explained in an Ansem report why Naminé was created iirc. Anyways, it wasn't pointless. Having nearly half of the fricken organization destroyed is not pointless at all. Not to mention, you're focusing way too much on Sora. It's all about Riku. Without this game, we would be completely blind as to what actually happened to Riku after KH. We wouldn't know that he had the power to use both the light and the darkness. We wouldn't know anything about DiZ. We wouldn't know anything about Naminé. We wouldn't know what happened to Mickey. Reverse/Rebirth gave great background information for Riku, so that we would know what he's been doing and how he and DiZ had met. Chain of Memories gave a great excuse for why Sora and Riku couldn't meet each other, even though Riku was saved from the darkness. It's a great setup for KH2.
Get a Calm Bounty, use it. Learn Blizzard Raid, then proceed to pwn Hades. Oh yeah, try to raise CP more, because that way you can have more Cure cards and 0 Kingdom Keys to heal or prevent damage.
1) Hades' World has Blizzard Raid obtainable. 2) You don't have to use Physical attacks on Vexen... Fire Raid wipes him out pretty quick 3) Larxene is pretty easy so long as you have a high powered Sleight like Holy or Omnislash in your deck. Whole bars will be gone in no time. ^ And final Marluxia can only use cards of 8 and below as long as Almighty Darkness wasn't used in the last room of Castle Oblivion. (Sorry, can't edit the post because the last page activates ActiveX Controls, which makes my browser crash)
Um, actually, any of the the Disney based worlds/worlds featuring Disney characters for Sora can be completed in any order. However, doing a world earlier means that the enemies and the boss won't be as tough as it would be if they were fought on a higher floor.
This site has the Re:CoM cutscenes.
She should just be glad that he didn't taste her.
Not really. Riku didn't hesitate about that, he was just preparing to leave and slaughter Ansem. He knows what he said and he's proud of it! ... Riku's cool like that, he can say pretty much anything and still be one of the coolest characters in the series.
^ Which is nice, but Riku in the GBA has the best dodge in any of the games (light mode Riku can dodge Dark Aura with ease, for example, or jumping over RockShatter to fully avoid it, etc.).
I guess the nose knows...
In Lexaeus' defense for Re:CoM's (lack of) difficulty, he can be invinicible in the Remake if you let him get away with it, making it a slightly longer fight.
The Reverse/Rebirth ending with Riku. lol at the connection to Buddhism. Seriously though, it's so perfect. Great setting, great camera shots, and even on the GBA screen it looked really nice. The expressions were also awesome.
DarkSide definitely takes the longest time... 3 and a half bars of HP with no weaknesses, and you can only hit him some of the time with most attacks. He's also the only boss I couldn't beat in under a minute. :(
I think that it would save some time to have the Chain of Memories sprites for most of the characters... How many characters are you aiming for to start with? Any alternate costumes for guys like Sora and Riku? What kinds of characters are you trying to get in first, other than the main ones like Sora. Guys like Hook or Cloud could be easy to start with because they have good CoM sprites.
